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Ian Patterson is many things. Importantly here, he’s the author of The Narrator Cycle. He’s also an engineer, cyclist, foodie, coffee lover, cat dad, human father, and reader of books. Preferably, thick books that deal with strange things and big ideas. He’s dreamed of being an author for decades, but finally began the journey with the birth of his first daughter. This is an objectively terrible time to start work that requires quiet concentration, and he knows it, but he loves the chaos nonetheless. He lives in Colorado with his wonderful family.

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How do you come back to yourself? When you look in the mirror and see someone foreign, someone so destroyed and misused that you think it can’t be you, how do you rectify that? The memory of myself haunts me. My body used to be this larger than life thing. Everything I ever needed. Ruined in its own way sure, but held at the edge of perfec

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The Highwayman Kennedy Thornwick

by Lisa Kuznak (Goodreads Author)

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The City and Its Uncertain Walls

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You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

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